Photovault 0.5.0

With it you can easily keep even a large photo archive in good order and find the images you need.
Main features:
Organizing and Searching
- Add structured metadata to images
- Confidence ranges - you can state that a photo has been taken in "January 1994" instead of giving an exact time
- Easy to change metadata of multiple photos at once
- Organize photos into hierarchical folders
- Add same photo to as many folders as you want with virtually no additional disk space needed
- Search based on any metadata field (coming)
- Restrict search to photos that are in a certain folder sub-hierarchy
Import and Export
- Import all image file types supported by Java Advanced Imaging
- Import multiple images at once
- Automatically extract metadata from image file when importing them to database (from EXIF and image file information)
- Export photos from database
Viewing and Processing Images
- Rotate photos
- Crop photos (coming)
- Adjust photo colors (coming)
- View photos at arbitrary zoom level
- Automatic thumbnail creation
- Original image file is preserved in all cases - all processing is done into a copy or while displaying the image
Technical requirements
- Photovault is written in 100% pure Java and should run in all environments supported by Sun Java 5.
- Runs in Windows, Linux and MacOS X
- Requires Java runtime environment 1.5 and Java Advanced Imaging
- Data storage in either Apache Derby (included in release) or MySQL database (not included)